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Re: [Ietf-message-headers] Re: Re:I-DAction:draft-saintandre-header-pres-00.txt

2007-11-06 14:57:26
Frank Ellermann wrote:
Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

1 - why two drafts instead of one ?
Because some people consider IM and presence to be fully separable
features, which is why we have both the pres: and im: URI schemes

Two schemes with a semantics somewhere between about: and file: ...
if I am interested in pres:juliet(_at_)example(_dot_)com, can say Psi help me 
?

Not unless Psi implements resolution of the pres: URI scheme (i.e.,
doing the required SRV lookup). As far as I know, Psi does not yet
implement that.

2 - who wants to publish pres URIs in email headers ?
Presumably people who want to show presence icons next to the names
of message authors.

Okay, but Gmail can manage that without a fancy Pres-ID: mail header
field.  I also don't quite believe in this separation "feature".

Gmail is an integrated service. What if you're using mutt or Thunderbird
or some random MUA and you want to show presence information about a
message author?

3 - what about Netnews ?
Yes, I added that in version -01 this morning (not yet submitted)

Thanks.

4 - what's going on with the nice jabberid draft ?
That is still to be determined.

You've now demonstrated your good will wrt im: and pres:, after
that exercise please let's continue with the jabberid.  It was
almost perfect, "experimental" status is also okay.

Version -06 had an intended status of Informational. I have been
convinced that that's most appropriate.

5 - jabberid had an interesting IRI example, the new
    drafts claim that juliet(_at_)example(_dot_)com is an URI.
For good or for ill, the pres: and im: URI schemes reuse the 
"mailbox" construct from RFC 2822. Or something like that

For ill, they imitate mailto:.  But what I meant in (5) was a
syntactical nit, juliet(_at_)example(_dot_)com is no URI, you forgot the
scheme, as in im:juliet(_at_)example(_dot_)com

In any case non-US-ASCII characters would need to be handled
as is traditional in email systems, as far as I can see.

"mailto-ter" (my name for a successor of mailto-bis supporting
EAI) is a _very_ hard case.  And mailto-bis is also a _very_
hard case.  Don't hold your breath.

IFF mailto-bis survives a Last Call, and IFF im/pres follow
suite, and IFF 2822bis reduces its NO-WS-CTL horrors, and IFF
EAI reaches "experimental", then might be a good time to look
at im/pres again.  

6 - I've never seen a pres: URI outside of RFC 3859,
    why should I wish to see this in a mail header ?
Because it is a more generic solution.

Okay, I've to check if Psi has a "be more generic" option :-)

Probably not yet. You can always request the feature. :)

http://www.iana.org/assignments/im-srv-labels

Some SRV magic, does it work wrt xmpp ?  Apparently there
is no _xmpp.stpeter.im.  "SRV" is still a mystery for me.

I don't run an xmpp server at my personal domain, since I use the
jabber.org domain for that. But per RFC 3859 you can type 'dig SRV
_pres._xmpp.jabber.org' and get some results (since we mainly use these
SRV records for server-to-server functionality, the SRV record lists a
port of 5269, which is the server-to-server port for xmpp).

if I recall discussions with Paul and Martin on the
URI list about RFC 2368 (mailto) correctly. 
I do not recall that discussion.

<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.uri/578>  Sorry,
it was Bruce and Paul, Matin was in other mailto-threads.

Thanks.

Peter

-- 
Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/

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